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11 Famous Cases of Domestic Violence
When it comes to domestic abuse, it has no boundaries. It doesn't matter what sex, race, socioeconomic status, or religion you practice. It can happen to anybody, and it happens a lot. When a person is abused by someone they are in a close personal relationship with, it can be quite frightening. It leaves its victims feeling helpless and alone.
It might surprise you to know that domestic abuse is happening all around you. It could be the woman next door or the teacher who teaches your child in elementary school. It could even be happening to the celebrities you watch every day on tv. So what are some famous cases of domestic violence?
Domestic Violence and Celebrities
Dwayne Haskins
Ike and Tina Turner
Domestic Violence in the News
Francine Hughes
Abi Blake
Domestic Violence of an Unusual Kind
Navy Man Rusty Babcock
A Muslim Male Victim Named Waqas
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In 2009 when rapper Chris Brown was dating Rihanna, he attempted to push her out of his car. He banged her head against the passenger window and punched her over and over again. He then threatened to beat her once they got home, but Rihanna called for help, and Brown was arrested and charged with two felonies.
Brown pled guilty to felony assault and was sentenced to five years probation and 180 days of community labor.
In July 2021, Pittsburgh Steelers Quarterback Dwayne Haskins and his wife, Kalabrya Gondrezick-Haskins, got into an altercation in a Las Vegas hotel. They were there to renew their wedding vows when they began to argue. Kalabrya allegedly punched Haskins in the mouth, causing him to lose a tooth. Police were called, and Haskins was taken to the hospital.
Kalabrya was arrested and faced a felony charge of battery and domestic violence, but later it was reported that the couple hashed out their differences, and the charges were dismissed.
In this instance, actor Charlie Sheen was not the victim but the perpetrator. It seems that he has a long list of allegedly assaulting, threatening, harassing, and abusing women. And in one instance, he has allegedly shot at women.
Sheen claims that every woman who has made allegations about him or even taken out restraining orders against him is lying. Yet, at the same time, he has been arrested and has pled guilty in two of his court proceedings regarding domestic abuse.
In 1990 Sheen allegedly shot actress Kelly Preston, whom he was engaged to, inside their Malibu home. She sustained injuries to her wrist and ankle and immediately ended the relationship.
In 1994, two months after marrying Donna Peele, a UCLA student sued Sheen, alleging that he hit her in the head because she wouldn't have sex with him. They settled the case out of court.
In 1996 Sheen was arrested for beating his girlfriend, Brittany Ashland, an actress in adult films. She said that Sheen knocked her out and threatened to kill her. Sheen pleaded no contest to battery charges and received two years' probation and a $2800 fine.
The list continues on Christmas Day, 2009. He received felony second-degree assault charges and felony menacing and a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief for allegedly strangling, holding a knife to the throat of, and threatening to kill his then-wife, Brooke Mueller. He pleaded guilty to third-degree domestic violence but didn't go to jail. He was allowed to return to work and attend an outpatient program in Malibu for behavior modification.
In 2010 Sheen was transported to a New York City hospital after trashing his hotel room in a rage. He was there with adult film star Capri Anderson who says that Sheen put his hands around her neck and threatened to kill her. She ended up locking herself in the bathroom to keep herself safe.
In 1988 Mike Tyson, 22, married then television actress Robin Givens, 23. Givens had left graduate school at Harvard to pursue an acting career. But Givens says that their domestic abuse problems started before their marriage. At that time, he was physically abusive, and she said she wasn't going to see him anymore. However, he kept calling her and crying on the phone, telling her how much he loved her. And she believed him.
Once they were married, the abuse increased. She tried to hide it, but her mother finally figured it out and confronted her. Yet still, Givens remained with him. She felt as though she had to protect him and convince him that the world could be an okay place.
Not only was Tyson physically abusive, but he was emotionally abusive as well, even after their divorce. He reportedly made several disturbing phone calls telling her he would make her life so miserable that she would commit suicide. In an interview for People magazine, she said, "I remember my ex-husband calling up and saying, 'I've decided I'm not going to kill you. I'm going to make your life so miserable you're going to slit your own throat and die.' "
Ike and Tina started their career together when Tina joined Ike's band, Kings of Rhythm, in the 1950s. The couple was married in 1962 in Tijuana, Mexico. They were in search of a justice of the peace, and then immediately after they were married, Ike took her to a brothel to a live, pornographic sex show.
Ike first started to take control of Tina when he discovered her as a teenager. He withheld her finances, beat her with a shoe stretcher while pregnant, and burned her. Tina describes their life together as defined by abuse and fear.
Though she knew she should have left him years earlier, she said she just didn't know how. She didn't have any money and didn't know how to take the first step. She was convinced that her only way out would be through death.
When she and Ike had sex, she described it as an act of hostility. It would end with him beating her. She has had a broken nose and several black eyes. He even burned her with scalding coffee that he threw in her face giving her third-degree burns.
She also says he used her nose as a punching bag so many times that she could taste the blood running down her throat when she sang on stage.
In 2016 this high-profile case was all over the news. It was during the divorce between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.
They initially lived together in 2011 and married in 2015. By 2016 Heard was filing for a divorce and a temporary restraining order. She reported that Depp had been physically and verbally abusing her throughout their entire time together. Though Depp's lawyers said Heard was just making allegations, Depp's former managers backed up Heard's story. They said that Depp had allegedly gotten physical with Heard on several occasions and that he had kicked her in the head.
XXXTentacion is a famous rapper/hip-hop artist who was charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness tampering.
The abuse started when XXXTentacion began to live with a young woman in 2016. He started by slapping her around, damaging her cell phone. Then she reported that he later threatened her life every day, once punching, stomping, and kicking her after she hummed along to a song on the radio. He also strangled her multiple times and threatened to kill her because she was pregnant. (She had sex with another man while he was in jail.)
One time he beat her so bad she asked him to take her to a hospital. Instead, he locked her in a bedroom for two days. Finally, she managed to escape and went to the Miami Beach police department and filed a complaint. XXXTenacion was then arrested.
The case that changed how the United States views domestic violence began when Francine Hughes murdered her abusive husband by pouring gasoline around his bed while he slept and lighting a match. Before that, authorities wouldn't listen to women who reported being abused by their husbands.
Around 1964, Francine Hughes married James "Mickey" Hughes, who began emotionally, verbally, and physically abusing her shortly thereafter. It started when she had bought some new clothes. Mickey ripped them off of her, yet she didn't know why.
Soon, they had four children, and Mickey spent most of their money on alcohol. In 1971 she went to see a social worker about divorcing him. However, Mickey just ignored the divorce decree and came and went as he pleased, beating her when he came. When he was in a serious car crash, she took him in to nurse him back to health.
In 1977 Francine attempted to enroll in a secretarial school her mother was paying for, and Mickey forced her to burn her books and demanded she drop out. Francine called the police when he threatened to destroy her vehicle, but the police said that they couldn't do anything about it since they didn't witness the abuse. They said this even though Mickey had threatened them and told Francine in front of the police that it was all over since she called for help. As soon as the police left, he beat her and raped her, and then fell asleep. That's when she knew what she had to do.
Acting quickly, Francine put her kids in the car, poured gasoline around Mickey's bed, and lit it on fire. Then she drove to the Ingham County Jail and turned herself in. She was arrested and charged with murder.
This case started a whole grassroots movement to raise awareness of domestic abuse and create a safe place for women who are being abused to go. Next, activists targeted the legal system.
Eventually, Francine Hughes was acquitted due to temporary insanity, which they referred to as the "burning bed syndrome," Since then, the burning bed syndrome has been used as a defense in other domestic abuse cases where women killed their abusers.
In 2014 Abi Blake was a single mom working as an operations manager at Manchester airport in England. It was there that she met Sebastian Swamy, and despite warnings from friends and family, she married him. She thought it was the happiest day of her life.
She, Sebastian, and her son moved to Knutsford, and then things quickly took a turn for the worst. At first, it was the way he talked to her – telling her how to behave, how to dress, how to speak. Then the insults came. She said he used to tell her as he pointed to her head that despite her degree, for someone with such intellect, she was pretty stupid. These comments made Abi doubt herself.
Abi tried to ignore the bad moments and focus on the good until the violence started, and she couldn't ignore it anymore. One evening, after returning from a friend's home, she found traces of cocaine on her son's toy table, and when she confronted him, he slapped her very hard, grabbed her mouth, and told her to shut up.
The next morning he apologized, but that was only the beginning. Though Abi tried to hide the bruises with long sleeves and scarves, she could not hide her shame.
She called the police on several occasions when she was really scared, but she always failed to press charges. Even when it seemed as though her husband had tried to murder her by setting the house on fire while she slept, she did nothing. The police tried to convince her to press charges of arson, but she wouldn't do it.
Eventually, the day came when he almost finished her off for good. Swamy kicked and stamped on Abi's body with so much force that he damaged her spinal cord, broke her ribs, and punctured her lung. As she lay there injured, he yelled at her, telling her he had had enough of her and to shut up.
Finally, she realized she needed to leave him. She suffers from permanent spinal cord damage and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). But she's still alive.
There was a time when a gay person in the military kept his sexual preference hidden for safety reasons. The military took the stance of "Don't ask, don't tell." This was the position Babcock faced while living with a toxic, controlling partner from 2003 until 2009.
The thing is, Babcock was stuck. Every time he tried to leave, his violent partner would threaten to tell Babcock's senior adviser about their relationship. If that happened, Babcock could lose his career.
Babcock states that at the beginning of their relationship, they were always fighting. He felt like he was always screwing up. He tried to leave by relocating to San Diego, telling his partner that he could just follow him later after settling in for a few months, but his partner wouldn't allow it. He said that Babcock wasn't allowed to move alone. They had to go together.
When they got down there, his partner said he had a job but lied. He started drinking heavily and couldn't hold a job. As a result of his careless living, he developed health problems that required a lot of medical care. Babcock ended up getting a second job to pay for their home and his partner's medical expenses. At the same time, his partner would spend all their money on alcohol.
Eventually, Babcock felt so trapped that he stopped looking for ways to get out. His partner kept threatening to tell the Navy he was gay. Babcock felt like he was in a "double whammy" with the military and the "don't-ask-don't-tell" policy. He was not only a male victim of domestic abuse, but he was also gay.
Eventually, one night in December 2009, his partner tried to kill him. Babcock had gone to bed early and woke up with his partner swinging a meat cleaver and trying to kill him. His partner missed, but they fought for two hours until Babcock finally made it out of the bedroom. He grabbed his wallet and keys and escaped with his life.
However, as he started his truck, he heard a "thump!" His partner had jumped into the bed of the truck and was kicking the back window screaming at Babcock. Finally, Babcock sped up and then slammed on the breaks, and his partner fell out. He sped away.
The stereotype of Muslim men is that they abuse their wives. This made it much harder for Waqas to get help. There can be a lot of shame for any man who is being abused by his partner.
For Waqas, it began when his now ex-wife and her family targeted his family looking for an arranged marriage. They lived in Canada and he in Maryland. He was originally born in Pakistan and came to the United States when he was four years old. When they were placed together, his ex would send him messages listing ten things she liked about him. She sounded great, and after meeting only three times, they got engaged. As soon as they were married, the abuse started.
His ex took total financial control. She moved to Maryland and transferred her company to Washington D.C., so Waqas was expected to quit his job. She then announced that she would be taking charge of the money. Within the first month of their marriage, her parents came for a visit and didn't leave for several months.
Even though Waqas was making a six-figure income, his wife only gave him a $100 weekly allowance for gas and food. He didn't know where all the money was going but later discovered it was going to her parents.
One month, after getting a tax refund and income from the two businesses he owned, he had deposited $50,000 in the bank. When it came time to pay the mortgage two weeks later, his wife said they didn't have enough to make the mortgage that month. It turns out she was funneling all the money into her own bank account.
She even monitored his phone and computer. She gave him a new cell phone on their wedding night, but he later found out she used it to track his calls. At another time, her brother gave him a set of Photoshop CDs, but along with the software, he had unknowingly installed a keylogging program that tracked everything he was typing and forwarded it to her brother.
Slowly Waqas' world got narrower and narrower as she limited his access to friends and family. They moved to Michigan in 2004 and had two children. Even though they would visit her family, she wouldn't let him socialize with his own. Pretty soon, he had no friends.
Eventually, Waqas tried talking to a non-Muslim minister. He knew that if he talked to anyone in the Muslim community, the word would get out. He also started seeing a therapist who suggested marriage counseling. His wife told him that if he made her go to counseling, she would take the kids and run to Canada. She had dual citizenship –– in Canada and the United States. He did not.
Eventually, after more manipulation and control on her part, he filed for a divorce. His wife hired an expensive lawyer, and she ended up getting everything. He even tried to kick her parents out of the house, but he ended up leaving instead. She got all of their assets, and he got a lot of debt.
He states that she attacked him during their entire marriage and would scream at him, yet one time when he touched her shoulder, her family called the police on him. They arrested him and put him in jail. Because he was a guy, no one believed him when he told the truth. Even old friends would laugh at him when he tried to tell them what was going on.
Eventually, he called the National Domestic Violence Hotline. He was in such bad shape. He couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, and he had anxiety and PTSD. Yet they believed him, and they listened to him and referred him to a Michigan domestic violence agency. He finally got the help he needed.
This list above is just a tiny representation of a worldwide problem that, thanks to advocates who fought for new legislation, is finally getting the attention it deserves. If you are reading this story and feel like you identify with anyone portrayed here, please seek help. You can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233. You don't have to go through this alone.
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569 & 565 Bloomingdale Road. Image: Courtesy of LPC.
Four buildings date to 19th century community founded by African- American freedmen. On February 1, 2011, Landmarks celebrated the beginning of Black History Month by designating as landmarks four buildings in the Sandy Ground community of Rossville, Staten Island. Sandy Ground was established in the 19th century as one of the country's earliest African-American freedmen communities. The community grew when African-American oystermen migrated from the Chesapeake Bay after Maryland passed laws restricting African-Americans from captaining their own boats.
Landmarks designated the cottages at 565 and 569 Bloomingdale Road as a single landmark, and in separate hearings, designated the Rossville A.M.E. Zion Church at 584 Bloomingdale Road and the Coleman House at 1482 Woodrow Road. Landmarks initially held hearings on the buildings in August 2010. 7 CityLand 126 (Sept. 15, 2010).
The Bloomingdale Road Houses were built in the 1880s by an unknown architect and represent the small-frame houses, known as "baymen's cottages," that were once common to the area. A third cottage, built concurrently, has since been demolished. The two-story buildings feature three-bayed facades, gabled roofs, and central chimneys. The houses' siding and roofing materials have been replaced, but the structures are otherwise intact.
The one-story Rossville A.M.E. Zion Church was built by Andrew Abrams in 1897 as the congregation's second place of worship. Over the years, the church has lost its steeple and the original clapboard siding has been replaced with fauxbrick siding. The structure's essential form and fenestration pattern remain unchanged. Landmarks designated the church's cemetery as an individual landmark in 1985.
The Reverend Isaac Coleman and Rebecca Gray Coleman House was built by an unknown architect sometime prior to 1859. The Colemans purchased the wood-framed and clapboard house in 1864 after moving to Sandy Ground following Isaac's appointment as pastor of the Rossville A.M.E. Zion Church. The house has remained within the Coleman family since. The original structure was likely a two-room home which was expanded to accommodate the growing family.
The Commissioner's unanimously designated the buildings. Landmarks' Staten Island representative, Vice Chair Pablo Vengoechea, noted the importance of protecting the buildings in light of the area's rapid development, which he stated was "nearly destroying every vestige of the area's history." Commissioner Michael Goldblum said that despite their "humble" appearances, the buildings were "exemplars of historic and cultural landmarks." Commissioners Margery Perlmutter and Fred Bland said signs should be created to inform the public about the importance of the buildings as remnants of the historic community.
LPC: 565 and 569 Bloomingdale Road Cottages, 565 Bloomingdale Rd., Staten Island (LP-2415); Rossville A.M.E. Zion Church, 584 Bloomingdale Rd., Staten Island (LP-2416); Reverend Isaac Coleman and Rebecca Gray Coleman House, 1482 Woodrow Rd., Staten Island (LP-2414) (Feb. 1, 2011).


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For the grading of the course under continuous evaluation method, it is actually considered compulsory to conduct a group practice work where a real world firm is analyzed in major areas. For these set of works there should be handed in a written version (and a snapshot page for the classroom mates) to be presented and discussed in class.
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Theory-practice lectures involving theory with some applications and exercises and, importantly, the analysis of cases (i.e., specific real world firms and their management problems).
1. Assignments and Tests: this grading scheme comprises one group practical assignmentsand two midterms. To pass the course the student needs at least an average of 9.5 points (=0.4*assignments´ grade+0.6*mideterms), out of 20 points. Specifically, the the first midterm weights 20% and the second 40% on the final grade.
2. Exam: in this case, the exam grade counts 100% of the final grade; the minimum pass grade is 9.5 points (out of 20 points).
Finally, improving the final grade is done through the respective exam.


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Guides and Applications
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What is a building permit?
A building permit is formal approval from your municipality to construct, add to, or renovate a building on your property.
Why do you need a building permit?
Building permits allow a municipality to protect the interests of both individuals and the community as a whole. By reviewing and approving plans before any work is done, the municipality can ensure that buildings comply with:
the Ontario Building Code, which sets standards for design and materials
the local zoning by-law and its controls on buildings and uses that are suitable to the area
other health and safety regulations
When do you need a building permit?
You must obtain a building permit before you:
put up any new building or place another structure such as a mobile home on your property
repair or add to a building
excavate or construct a foundation
install heating, plumbing, air conditioning, or a fireplace put up a temporary building
If you're not sure whether you need a building permit or you wish to change the use of your building, call your municipality. Staff can answer your question immediately, or send a building inspector to look at what you plan to do and tell you what you need.
How do you apply for a building permit?
You can get an application for a building permit from your municipality. But it's a good idea to talk to the staff before you apply. They can tell you what information, drawings and plans you'll have to include with the application and whether you'll need any other permits or approvals.
When you apply you'll have to attach sketches, plans, and other documents. You may also have to pay a fee for the application and for other services such as a property survey or a hook-up to the municipal water supply.
What happens to your application?
Municipal building staff will review your application to confirm that the proposed work complies with the Ontario Building Code and the local zoning by-law. They may also send it to other municipal officials for comments. If there are problems with your application or your plan, the staff will tell you why and will show you what you have to do.
Applications for a simple alteration or addition can be processed fairly quickly, but more complex proposals may take longer. If you need a zoning change or a minor variance from the zoning bylaw, or if the work does not comply with the building code, a permit will not be issued until all the changes have been made.
What happens during construction?
Building permits often list the kinds of inspections that will have to be done during construction. A building inspector will inspect the work to determine if it is carried out in accordance with the building code, your permit, and the approved plans.
You will also be required to:
show your permit in a window or other place where it can be easily seen
keep copies of the plans on the site
contact the municipality at the appropriate stages of construction for inspections
tell the municipality about any last-minute changes, which will also have to be approved
The inspector must always be able to see the work. If it's different from the work that was approved, you will be told to correct it. If you don't, the municipality can take legal action.
What about demolition?
Before you take down all or part of a building, you will have to apply to your municipality for a demolition permit. The process is much the same as for a building permit.
What if you want to change a building's use?
If you want to change the way you use all or part of your building you may need a change of use permit, even if you're not planning any construction. A building evaluation may have to be done to make sure that the existing building can support the proposed use. Different uses have different code requirements.
Call your municipal building department to find out whether you will need a change of use permit.
What happens if you don't get a building permit?
Anyone who is charged and found guilty of building without a permit can be fined up to $25,000 for a first offence and up to $50,000 for later offences. Fines can also be imposed if you don't follow an order from the building department.
What other approvals may be required?
In addition to the planning approvals and building permit which are required for a building project, there are other permits and approvals required in particular circumstances. For example, a septic tank permit is required for a new septic system. In cottage areas, a permit may be required from the Ministry of Natural Resources before you do any construction in the water (for example, a dock or boathouse with solid foundation).
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Brianna Parkins: Ever the resourceful daughter, I drugged Mam with the dead dog's Valium
It seemed like the best way to get her to Ireland. And I did check the expiry date. I'm not a monster
Brianna Parkins: 'I would give anything to be sitting in the backseat of a baking car, caravan in tow, with my parents'
I don't know when holidays start now as an adult. Is it an airport pint? Is it landing and getting a blast of warm, foreign air to the face when you exit the automatic airport doors? As a child it was simple. It was my dad at 5am, shaking the shoulders of everyone in the house to wake us up with his gentle loving refrain of "if your arse isn't in the car in 20 minutes we're going without you".
We obviously would not pull out of the driveway until three hours later, following Dad's existential crisis over what could and could not fit in the boot. It was usually at this time that he would become a sudden devotee of minimalism. "Do you actually even need shoes? We're going to the beach."
I spent my childhood in the back of an un-airconditioned Honda as my parents dragged us up and down the east coast of Australia in 40-degree heat.
Stephen, my dad, will probably write a letter to the editor disputing this claim. When we were kids he used to say the small hatchback that contained two adults, two kids and an increasingly put-upon dog did in fact have air conditioning. "It's a model 280", he'd say smugly. "Two windows down going 80kms an hour."
My mam charts time by births and pregnancies. My dad measures time by what car he had at the time. We all go by what's important to us, I guess
I now know dads in fact draw their energy from laughing at their children's non-life-threatening discomfort. You can witness this any time a male relative rips a fart and giggles as other members of the family in the vicinity gasp and cry out in horror at a smell so bad it could constitute a war crime.
The advent of electric windows, the kind the driver could put up and lock, was not a technological advance welcomed in our family. One of my dad's mates was truly an innovator in this field. He would innocently ask the car, "Does anyone smell petrol?" causing the passengers to inhale panicked lungfuls of air. Air that was filled with the flatulence dropped strategically seconds before. We should have called child services looking back.
Australians are only allowed two holidays. Up the coast and down the coast. This meant 12 hours in a car with one radio that didn't work in remote locations. This gave us plenty of time to listen to my parents argue about what year we got a new carport.
My mam charts time by births and pregnancies. "Now that was when Donna was pregnant with Kyle, Brianna had turned three a few months earlier." My dad measures time by what car he had at the time. "Now that was after the Honda, but were we driving the Commodore? Yep it was 1994." We all go by what's important to us I guess.
The biggest trip we ever undertook was bringing my mam and her mam back to Ireland in 2016 when I competed in the Rose of Tralee. My mam is not the calmest flier at the best of times. You add on being responsible for transporting three ball gowns, two old-age pensioners and two gormless Australians (me, dad) across the world on two flights totalling 24 hours including a Dubai layover and the poor woman was, in medical terminology, "in a complete jock".
Months earlier our beloved family dog had died, but before he did he had developed a lifelong habit of jumping out of open windows snf through expensive flyscreens whenever he heard fireworks. The vet prescribed a sedative to give to him before New Year's and Halloween. It turns out dog benzodiazepine is actually just human benzodiazepine with 'Lucky the dog' stuck on the label. So I asked if Mam would like a tablet I'd robbed from the dog's cupboard.
Wearing a hand-me-down bikini top whose loose elastic was no match for a water slide
Yes, being the ever resourceful and thoughtful daughter I am, I did indeed drug my mother with the dead dog's Valium. (I did check the expiry date and made sure she wasn't on interacting medications or had certain conditions; I'm a terrible, terrible person but not a monster.) Recently I confessed to her what I did and she agreed that she did have a lovely flight and was in fact annoyed that I hadn't given her one on the way home.
We always seem to remember family holidays the best. This is because they are always at least slightly traumatic and trauma sticks in the brain. I'm not alone. For every magic moment there's the walking in on an elderly uncle with a lax attitude to shower locks and an unnerving dedication to manscaping.
A lot of family holiday misery is caused by parents "saving money". Having to share a bed with your sister at the age of 16 or wearing a hand-me-down bikini top whose loose elastic was no match for a water slide. We should demand the money they saved be put into a therapy fund as compensation.
But now, as an adult who can go anywhere but back to my family, I would give anything to be sitting in the backseat of a baking car, caravan in tow, with my parents in the front arguing over whether the Fleetwood Mac or Glen Campbell tape would go in next. Except this time I'm smart enough to demand air conditioning and access to a window at all times.
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Xia? :) could i be T-ae too if nobody wants to be her? .o.
I can be joy too if no one want's her...I already have both parts pre recorded and T-ae's from different collabs LOL.
Joy-Just erase T-Ae's part LOL.
ONE MORE DAY TO TURN IN PARTS!


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Home » USPS, regional parcel carrier OnTrac to launch "last-mile" delivery service in late summer
USPS, regional parcel carrier OnTrac to launch "last-mile" delivery service in late summer
Mark B. Solomon
Western regional parcel carrier OnTracwill launch a delivery service later this year in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service, a move that will give retailers a fourth major package delivery option in a territory of 60 million buyers.
The service, which hasn't been formally named, is slated to begin in late August or early to mid-September, according to Mark Magill, director of business development for Phoenix-based OnTrac. The company has hired Andy Webber—who had been vice president of operations for DHL Global Mail, a unit of DHL—to head operations for the new venture.
OnTrac has been granted authority by USPS to begin the service and will spend the next few months putting the necessary equipment and systems in place to launch in late summer, according to Magill.
OnTrac currently serves seven Western states, and its network goes as far east as Colorado. An eighth state, Idaho, comes online March 4. Most notable is OnTrac's presence in California, the nation's most populous state, where it serves every ZIP code. OnTrac serves the major metro areas in the other states.
The initiative comes as USPS announced today it plans to end Saturday deliveries of first-class mail starting the week of Aug. 5, a move that it will save $2 billion a year. However, in a change of plans, USPS said it would maintain Saturday deliveries of packages, an acknowledgment of parcel's growing relevance to the quasi-government agency's future. Parcel's growth is being driven in large part due to the explosion in e-commerce transactions.
"Over the past several years, the Postal Service has advocated shifting to a five-day delivery schedule for mail and packages," Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe said today in announcing the change. "However, recent strong growth in package delivery (14-percent volume increase since 2010) and projections of continued strong package growth throughout the coming decade led to the revised approach to maintain package delivery six days per week."
An announcement to end Saturday first-class mail deliveries was long expected, especially as USPS continues to lose volumes to electronic diversion, a trend that is likely secular in nature. However, the timing caught some by surprise, especially since Donahoe made no mention of it when he spoke late last week before the Parcel Shippers Association. There may also be Congressional backlash as politicians concerned about constituent reaction may argue that such a cutback be addressed through legislation and not through administrative fiat.
The OnTrac-USPS service will be patterned after the relationships USPS has developed over the past few years with the three major parcel carriers: FedEx Corp., UPS Inc. and, to a lesser extent, DHL Express. Under the service, known within USPS as "Parcel Select," the carriers pick up and aggregate large volumes of parcels from retailers and e-tailers, induct the parcels deep into the USPS distribution network, and have the Post Office make the "last-mile" deliveries, mostly to residential destinations. By law, USPS must deliver to every address in the United States.
For the past four years, OnTrac has partnered with USPS on a last-mile offering but has only made the service available to parcel consolidators, firms that aggregate shipments for retailers and rely on OnTrac's intraregional distribution network because they don't have their own. The new service signals a major change because OnTrac can now pursue large retailers for their traffic and, in many cases, bypass the consolidators.
"We want to play in the big leagues," Magill told DC Velocity in an interview yesterday.
In mid-October, the company opened a 400,000-square-foot distribution center (DC) in Commerce, Calif., just east of Los Angeles. The opening of the DC essentially served as the catalyst for the new service because OnTrac can now offer larger retailers shipping across the West an integrated pick-up, distribution, and delivery solution in concert with USPS, according to Magill.
OnTrac's relatively limited coverage area enables it to make next-day ground deliveries at distances of up to 500 miles, something the larger carriers cannot or will not do. Yet the company's network, which stretches from Washington State in the northwest to Arizona in the southwest, is expansive enough to allow it to provide next-day deliveries that encompass a NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement)-like geography.
By leveraging its territorial advantage, OnTrac's service will undercut the big carriers on both price and time-in-transit, according to Magill. For example, OnTrac offers next-day ground deliveries from Los Angeles and San Francisco, a 400-mile trek, at a tariff charge of about $6.00. UPS and FedEx do not offer next-day ground deliveries in that lane, so a next-day delivery would have to move by air at a much higher price, Magill said.
The same type of differential would extend into the USPS venture, Magill said. All three delivery companies would offer second-day deliveries to the final destinations, but OnTrac's economies of scale would enable it to price its service well below its larger rivals, he said.
Regional carrier executives have said their operating models are well suited to support e-commerce growth as retailers refine their delivery offerings and look to move merchandise in compressed time windows over shorter distances but without paying for expensive air services.
The USPS' "Parcel Select" service has been priced inexpensively relative to the carriers' own closed-loop services, in part because of the low rates offered by USPS for its portion of the delivery. Online retailers find the model particularly attractive because the cheap rates give them the flexibility to offer dramatically discounted, or in many cases, free shipping to their customers.
USPS is taking advantage of the model's success. Effective Jan. 27, it increased Parcel Select rates by between 7 and 10 percent. "[This move] raises the floor on [busness-to-consumer] pricing quite significantly, in our view," said Douglas O. Kahl, executive consultant at transport and logistics consultancy TranzAct Technologies Inc., based in Elmhurst Ill.
For the carriers, the sizable volume increases under the service apparently are sufficient enough to absorb the low yields, or revenue per package, generated by each shipment. The revenue per package for FedEx's service, known as "SmartPost," is $1.81, according to TranzAct data culled from FedEx reports. By contrast, FedEx generates $8.77 in revenue for the typical shipment moving on its "FedEx Ground" ground-parcel service, and between $11.65 and $22.31 in revenue for the average shipment moving on its air and international delivery product known as "FedEx Express," the consultancy said.
In its fiscal 2013 second quarter, which ended Nov. 30, FedEx said SmartPost's average daily volume increased 17 percent year-over-year, primarily due to the growth in e-commerce. Net revenue per package increased by two percent due to a change in service mix and to rate increases, both of which were partially offset by higher postage rates.
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KEYWORDS FedEx U.S. Postal Service UPS
OnTrac, USPS launch last-mile delivery service
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FedEx buys UK last mile delivery firm to boost position in cross-border e-commerce
Mark Solomon joined DC VELOCITY as senior editor in August 2008, and was promoted to his current position on January 1, 2015. He has spent more than 30 years in the transportation, logistics and supply chain management fields as a journalist and public relations professional. From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Washington as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce, covering the aviation and trucking industries, the Department of Transportation, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for Traffic World for seven years in a similar role. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Solomon ran Media-Based Solutions, a public relations firm based in Atlanta. He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.
Recent Articles by Mark Solomon
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Last week, Facebook announced that it would begin allowing mobile web publishers to access demand on the Facebook Audience Network (FAN) via header bidding, a method of ad fulfillment that it had previously not permitted publishers to use. Facebook, which is often seen as operating a walled garden with respect to access to its inventory, user data, and tools chain, is partnering with six ad tech firms that operate header bidding tools to give publishers access to FAN demand.
Header bidding has instigated a massive sea change in the world of desktop and mobile web advertising, but it has had almost no impact on in-app advertising. Whereas most web ad inventory used to be rendered via waterfall fulfillment — querying ad exchanges in decreasing order of historical average bid CPM — Facebook claims that about 70% of web publishers now use header bidding to serve ads.
It should be noted that the header bidding paradigm emerged as a response to Google's primacy with AdX, since AdX is given the first look at inventory when a publisher works with DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) using a setting called Dynamic Allocation. But this dynamic is changing slowly with Google developing products to make the process of serving ads with DFP more transparent, although many people still think that header bidding has advantages over working directly with Google through their "header bidding killer" product, EBDA.
On mobile, header bidding is really only applicable to the web: while a few exchanges / SSPs offer in-app header bidding solutions for mobile app developers, the approach still isn't very popular for publishers. Right now, the mobile monetization landscape looks much like the pre-header bidding desktop ecosystem did a few years ago: a middle layer of ad mediation, often run by companies that also own demand sources, operating waterfalls of demand pools (ad networks) that can only be optimized in a very onerous, time intensive process.
One reason that in-app header bidding hasn't taken off is that most developers are loath to experiment with new tools that require an SDK implementation. App size bloat is one consideration, but the main problem is implementation and maintenance overhead, which requires engineering resources. For a lot of smaller and even mid-sized developers, an SDK for an advertising-related tool, especially for an esoteric technology like header bidding, is a non-starter: even as advertising monetization generates an increasing amount of revenues for many app developers, the advertising ecosystem is viewed with a skeptical eye (probably rightfully so), and the implementation, testing, and maintenance of external SDKs can be a deal breaker given that most of the ad tech tools pitched to publishers are suspicious and often of dubious value.
The second reason that in-app header bidding hasn't taken off is simply that most demand is pooled in Facebook and the big networks with direct access to inventory (check Singular's 2016 ROI report for a reasonable list of the largest 20 mobile ad networks) and generally isn't available on exchanges. These big networks don't stand to gain from a header bidding environment, and they control the vast majority of inventory on mobile. Mobile mediation provider Appodeal put together a guide to simulating in-app header bidding via a mediation platform, but until exchanges become a reliable and considerable source of impressions on mobile, this kind of manual, short-term optimization is probably the closest to header bidding that app publishers can get.


Are you always defending yourself? - Anglia Counselling Ltd.
Are you always defending yourself?
Do you find yourself frequently defending your position in the home, at work or when socialising?
We can find ourselves doing this because we have become 'reactive', and less responsive to what we are hearing or seeing. Our thoughts, about those things, may have become instinctive and without proper consideration.
Yet, in the few seconds it can take, we can lengthen the fuse so we find ourselves understanding more about why others are saying those hurtful words – or doing what they are doing – with some compassion and comprehension.
Just how often might it be others who are suffering a lack of skill in their words and actions can then become more noticeable, reducing the need to defend ourselves.


It starts out with a buzz. It's just a whisper that grabs your attention. "I'll ignore it", you think. But then it lights up and suddenly the whisper is persistent until it turns into a shout: "LOOK AT ME!" You give into the temptation, pick up your phone, and check the latest Snapchat you just received.
Pretty intense, right? But sometimes, that's how it feels. It's almost instinct to pick it up. Our generation has become incredibly dependent on our phones, and it seems we can't leave our houses without them anymore. They can be great in moderation, but phone usage is a slippery slope that's hard to climb back up.
I'll admit I'm an avid Snapchat user. It's a great way to instantly see what my old friends from home are up to. Our phones can provide an instant connection to those we love, and provide fast, accessible communication. In seconds, you can find out what's going in any corner of the world.
Still, phones have also become a crutch for us. They distract us from normal living scenarios, and we get lost in the depths of the Internet too quickly. Have you ever noticed how whenever there's a dull moment in a conversation or an awkward silence, people instantly reach for their phones and scroll through their Instagram feed? We bypass social interaction altogether because phones help us escape. Phones also are used for record-keeping, but far too excessively. Have you been to a concert and seen everyone's phones out? Whatever happened to living in the moment? Why are we so obsessed with documenting and sharing our experiences? Do we even remember life before the cell phone epidemic? How did things spiral out of control so quickly? Is there a cure?
This past week, a few of us at The Prattler downloaded "RealizD", an app that collects data on your daily cell phone usage and allows you to to set a limit on it as well. Personally, I felt that by using the app, I was encouraged to put my phone down. I knew I was being monitored, so I wanted to decrease the time I wasted. I looked at social media less and found that I had more time to dedicate to my work. Now, I challenge you to download this app. It will be an eye-opening experience to see how much you use your phone each day. From there, see if you can use your phone less and focus on other activities instead. Go outside, walk around and simply appreciate your surroundings. Don't take your phone with you. When you're with your friends, keep your phone out of sight. Just cherish the time you have together and really connect. If you're bored, spend some time alone with your thoughts, or pick up a book and start reading. Look up long enough to have new adventures, meet new people, and value the ones already in your life.
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Rumour suggest FINAL FANTASY VERSUS XIII to be renamed and release in 2014 for Sony's next-generation console, the PlayStation 4.
Not only that, but also the development for FINAL FANTASY XV and FINAL FANTASY XVI are on the way. Accourding to "neoGAF" user; "verendus" who is willing to put his account on the line. Saying that he would delete his account if rumour proves to be false.
Square Enix refuse to comment on the rumor.
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Thanks babe! We are all about pattern-buying-enabling over here ;D I've got some exciting plans for the clover, just waiting for it to make it to the top of my sewing queue!
What a great outfit. You look lovely!
The cardigan looks great, now I want to sew this pattern.The print looks great with the black skirt. I wish it would get warmer here in Norhern Germany, still wearing long sleeves and pants and jackets….


I am really getting sick of all these religious Christian nitwits whining and bleating about abortion, sticking their do-gooder noses into situations where they don't belong and generally being a nuisance. I know many women who have had abortions, and it has always been a trying and painful experience. Let's accept it and show compassion and understanding that their decisions were right and necessary.
John Rankin and his New England Christian Action Council are blinded by their beliefs and represent much of what is undesirable in this world. I think it is great that most people have enough common sense and humanness not to be swayed by these extremist crackpots.
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It is only now that I realize that we lost two of the actors from two my All-Time Favorite movies this year. John Cusack, please take care of yourself. You too, Matt Dillon.
Of course like any good child of the 80s, I loved Robin Williams long before he played Mr. Keating. I loved him the moment he showed up in that weird red space suit with the aluminum foil triangle on "Happy Days." And it was one of those childhood loves I mostly put away and forgot about until I learned yesterday that Robin Williams stopped passing the open windows. I wrote about the phrase passing the open windows when David Foster Wallace died.
Like so many, learning of Williams' death gutted me. He was one of those celebrities where you can instantly name five six things he was involved with that you loved, and then the more you think the more you realize how pervasive he was in your pop cultural upbringing. How could I forget Garp? I said to Sister #2. And Aladdin? And Ferngully? And One Hour Photo? And. . . the list marched on.
When people succumb to depression it saddens and scares me unlike accidental deaths or deaths caused by other illnesses. Depression mystifies and terrifies me. I don't even pretend to understand what it's like to suffer from it. I only offer endless gratitude that I have escaped it.
I turned to "Dead Poets Society" last night for comfort, a movie I watched endlessly in the late 80s. This movie loomed so large in my life that when I was a senior in high school I wrote my big, important honors English paper on Candide, The Count of Monte Cristo, and "Dead Poets Society." I was such a nerd.
Anyway, I'm of the belief this movie should be required viewing for all seventeen-year-olds. Hell, it should be required viewing for everyone. When I was seventeen the movie was all about the power and beauty of poetry and gathering ye rosebuds.
�No matter what anyone tells you words & ideas can change the world,� Mr.Keating says, these are exactly the kind of thoughts a burgeoning writer wants to hear.
And that has nothing to do with the death of Robin Williams, I see now, and everything to do with the death of critical thinking. I wish more people did it. The ability to think critically is one of the things I admire most in people.
Sorry for the selfish aside. I guess this is all a selfish aside, grieving is for the living I suppose.


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Meghan McCain Pays Touching Tribute to Friendship with 'The View' Co-host Whoopi Goldberg
By Olowokandi Fiyin
https://news.amomama.com/229934-meghan-mccain-pays-touching-tribute-frie.html
TV personality Meghan McCain had nothing but delightful words to share as she took out time to admire her friend and fellow star, Whoopi Goldberg in her recent social media update.
"The View" co-host, Meghan McCain duly honored veteran star and fellow TV host, Whoopi Goldberg in her latest post on Instagram.
The post shared to her page had McCain showing her heartfelt feeling and appreciation for their years of working together and being friends.
Academy Governor Whoopi Goldberg speaks onstage at the Academy Museum Conversation at The Times Center, featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Kerry Brougher and Renzo Piano on April 16, 2018 | Photo: Getty Images
McCain, a seasoned TV personality, shared a picture collage of herself and Goldberg in what looked like a scene from the daytime show, "The View." Her caption could warm any heart:
"Getting to work with a living icon like @whoopigoldberg every day is still such a privilege and totally surreal. Love you, Whoop…"
The 35-year-old went on as she thanked the Hollywood veteran for all that she has learned from her. McCain mentioned that she felt lucky to work with Goldberg and the other "incredible women" on the show.
Fans in the comments agreed with McCain's post as they commended her and Goldberg while encouraging them to keep up the excellent work.
McCain once mentioned that she would not be on the show if Goldberg was not present.
The three-time Emmy nominee and Goldberg have had their fair share of TV drama and arguments due to their different political views. However, they always makeup and level up with positivity.
Once on the show, McCain told the "Ghost" actress how much she loved and appreciated her. She made it known that Goldberg was her late father's friend and she felt like they were family.
Although all the hosts on "The View" do not have a close relationship outside the show, they are amicable and treat themselves as family.
McCain once mentioned that she would not be on the show if Goldberg was not present because the "Sister Act" actress knows how to handle everyone's personalities.
The legendary actress was born Caryn Elaine Johnson, and she started her career as an actress. She got her big break after landing a role in 1985's "The Color Purple." In 2001, her role in "Ghost" earned her an Academy Award.
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She became the second African-American woman to win the award. More of her acting credit include "Sisters Act," "Interrupted," and "The Deep End of the Ocean."
The 64-year-old Hollywood legend joined "The View" in 2007 as the moderator. Over the years, Goldberg has found herself in heated arguments regarding her political views, which contrasted with her flow host; however, the ladies get along well.
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Kevin Bacon & Wife Kyra Sedgwick Discovered They Are Cousins after DNA Test — It Was 'Unsettling'


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Reflections From Costa Rica
By Rev. Holly Bandel
What did you learn? I once again learned that mission is about relationships. The people of Costa Rica are so hospitable and teach me about being more like Christ.
What made you laugh? Speaking Spanglish and having the attempt returned with a smile.
What made you cry? Worship at Agape Church in Puerto Viejo was so moving. I really felt the presence of the Holy Spirit.
How did you see or experience God's presence and/or work? I experienced God's presence in the way the team and our neighbors in Costa Rica came together to work on a new building for the church. It was a true example of being the body of Christ.
How did your expectations align with your actual experience? It was even better than expected!
What do you want people who didn't have the opportunity to go on the trip to know? It is work, fun and the Holy Spirit all wrapped up together in a wonderful week.


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Jackknife Estimation of Stationary Autoregressive Models
Chambers, MJ
Marcus J. Chambers
This paper reports the results of an extensive investigation into the use of the jackknife as a method of estimation in stationary autoregressive models. In addition to providing some general theoretical results concerning jackknife methods it is shown that a method based on the use of non-overlapping sub-intervals is found to work particularly well and is capable of reducing bias and root mean squared error (RMSE) compared to ordinary least squares (OLS), subject to a suitable choice of the number of sub-samples, rules-of-thumb for which are provided. The jackknife estimators also outperform OLS when the distribution of the disturbances departs from normality and when it is subject to autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity. Furthermore the jackknife estimators are much closer to being median-unbiased than their OLS counterparts.
Chambers, MJ, 2010. "Jackknife Estimation of Stationary Autoregressive Models," Economics Discussion Papers 2786, University of Essex, Department of Economics.
Handle: RePEc:esx:essedp:2786
File URL: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/2786/
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To Make a Deal with Iran, Consider Culture, Not Cliche
State Department Iran coordinator Brian Hook (State Department via Flickr)
by Siamak Tundra Naficy
When U.S. economic sanctions, military threats, and outright demands fail to ensure political success with Iran, there may be a temptation to put down Schelling and Clausewitz and instead pick up Franz Boas. While an understanding of anthropology and the nuances of culture is itself not a bad thing, a misinformed and misguided approach is a path to poor predictive power.
Of course, some Iran hawks still openly call Iran irrational, sometimes evoking synonyms like abnormal, and continue tired, perpetual Munich analogies. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo only recently demanded Iran behave like a normal nation, echoing State Department Iran envoy Brian Hook's normalcy end state goal for Iran from last year. Aside from the condescending notions of implicit hierarchy, moral superiority, and Iranian childlike immaturity, these statements beg the question as to what just what they mean to act like a normal nation.
The problem of course, is that but a glancing look at history or indeed, current headlines regarding America's allies in the region reveal the hypocrisy—from support of non-state armed groups that destabilize neighbors to human rights violations of one's own people. Of course, when interests clash with (stated) values, the United States—as like every nation—tends to choose the former. We shouldn't expect others to do any different. In slightly more nuanced circles, irrationality is rebranded as culture, and many unreflectively still imagine it's something that afflicts the other. So, even when it's admitted that culture affects foreign policymaking, there is a tendency to assign rationality to "us" and irrationality to "them." In this way, an implicit assumption of superiority persists: a rational, normal nation in Manichaean conflict with an irrational, abnormal one.
Culture in Strategic Context
Elsewhere, I have illustrated how such a simplistic approach mistakenly and unnecessarily imagines culture as being both distinct to, and contained within, specific territorial boundaries—like nation-states. On the contrary, a culture is never really uniform (there is meaningful variation), nor is it usually confined to its borders. So don't buy the talk about a distinctive, unique, and homogenous way of life. There is no single authentic Iranian way of life just as there as there is no single authentic American way of life. All cultures are traversed and cut with radical antagonisms. In fact, there has never been a state whose foreign policy has not been troubled, constrained, or affected by the different, sometimes contradictory values, preferences, and aspirations of those within its society. There are always differing domestic forces and sources working at cross-purposes and thus no regime is monolithic in its approach. From conflicts of interest between local ethnic groups and the state, to tempting demands from powerful business lobbies that are at odds with national interests, the fears and desires of influencers at home limit and constrain foreign policy choices abroad.
Embracing this, we can then consider how a culture can develop around a state's strategic context in an assessment of the plight of Iran. Since its founding in 1979, the Islamic Republic has been able to take advantage of various crises at its borders by legitimizing itself around a defensive narrative—safeguarding Iran against various foreign threats.
Today, numerous U.S. military bases dot the region and the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) and its ilk remain a threat to Iran. But, recall that Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Iran less than a calendar year after its revolution, and backed by both the U.S. and the Soviets used chemical weapons against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds, fighting Iran to a standstill for 8 years. Just three years after that war, in 1991, the U.S. attacked Iraq, resulting in an estimated 1.3 million Iraqi refugees in Iran, and a near civil war. Of course, 12 years later the U.S. ended Hussein's regime in the Iraq War, and tore down the existing geopolitical order in the region.
To the East, the Taliban, assisted by al-Qaeda, massacred 11 Iranian diplomats along with thousands of Afghan Shia civilians in and around Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998. Iran almost went to war with the Taliban over this, in the end choosing restraint perhaps because of Pakistan's (a Taliban backer) newfound nuclear capacity. But, again, in just three years, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, this time with Iran—along with its ally the Northern Alliance—eager to provide the U.S.-led coalition with vital intelligence and military assistance. Throughout these crises the Islamic Republic has presented itself as the longstanding defender of Iranian territory, and the reason why Iran has yet to become an Afghanistan, an Iraq, or a Syria.
Paradoxically, however, these sources of strength regarding a defensive foreign policy narrative have also served to screen both Iran's greatest weakness in its rift between state and society as well as its considerable strategic inadequacies. Iran today is surrounded by some hostile Arab states and Israel, as well as the forces of the United States. It is heavily sanctioned and secluded within its ever-threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defense to a degree that submerges other interests and activities. The political, cultural, economic, and legal aspirations of the Iranian people ceased to be the primary concern of the government long ago; political thought in Tehran ever centers around a defensive strategy.
A cultural approach informed by history can help illuminate why Iran, with a nationalistic and well-educated population having a collective memory of both recent and ancient existential crises and foreign interventions, is overcome with a siege-like mentality—a sense of itself as having circled the wagons and being surrounded by militarily superior adversaries—is overly reliant on unconventional military solutions, soft power, and an absolute sense of security. Culture, then, can be thought of as comprising the collective living memory of historical experience and the mythology and narratives that the group develops to share and pass on that experience.
National Interests Trump Culture
Still, an overly deterministic culturalist approach underestimates the tangled relationship between war, politics, and culture. In multicultural polities like Iran, the United States, and elsewhere, this can result in a contradictory experience at different levels of policymaking—a reality that can make any coherent and constructive international response problematic. Pragmatic leaders are not necessarily trapped in their own articulated state identity, even when their foreign policy choices compete with or contradict the official rhetoric.
If we fail to understand, we may come to see culture (and not, say, the economic and social unmooring of traditional territorial societies and identities that inevitably accompanies the uncertainties and insecurities of an increasingly globalized world) as the primary source of international conflict. But in the real world, of course, nations don't act like culturally-scripted actors. From alliances of convenience between sixteenth-century England and Safavid Persia (for his part, Shah Abbas I "preferred the dust from the shoe soles of the lowest Christian to the highest Ottoman personage"), to Nazi Germany's alliance with Imperial Japan, to the security cooperation between modern Shia Iran and Christian Orthodox Armenia (rather than Shia Azerbaijan), it becomes obvious that pragmatic leaders can pivot and play musical chairs with identities.
In his 2018 book, The Shah of Iran, the Iraqi Kurds, and the Lebanese Shia, Arash Reisinezhad provides further illumination. For contrary to popular belief, Iran's investment in non-state actors is nothing new. Before 1979, it was often carried out through the Shah's secret service—the SAVAK—which, just like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard today, specialized in external operations and internal repression to build up potential allies and undermine the state's opponents. SAVAK delivered weapons to Lebanese Christian Maronites and CIA archives demonstrate knowledge of its funding of, and military aid to, Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga. Its support of the Lebanese Shia was channeled through the Pahlavi Foundation (Bonyade Pahlavi), and continued, as the Alavi Foundation, after the revolution. The Shah, who held several titles including that of Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans) also channeled money to Lebanese Shia through Iranian Ayatollahs, local Arab ayatollahs, and religious schools. He funded these and other groups strategically, in hopes that they could be useful to challenge Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser's pan-Arabism. Note that the justifications are virtually identical: "We should combat and contain the threat [of Nasserism] in the East coast of the Mediterranean [Lebanon] to prevent shedding blood on the Iranian soil."
So, if a pre-Islamic, Aryanist nationalist ideology of defense or a post-Islamic religious trans-national ideology fail to fully account for Iran's consistent geopolitical strategic goals and consistent use of proxies both during the Shah and after, then what does? Hint: it's not religion, culture, nor ideology.
As such, it's important to restate that while Iran's foreign polices might at times be provocative, they are not irrational. Furthermore, they are predictable—but not from a utilitarian cost/benefit approach that sees the world and everything in it in terms of numbers (all zeros and ones). Similarly, Iranian foreign policy does not simply fall out of religious or ideological scripts, with actors just reading their lines. Nor for that matter, is Iranian foreign policy due to a single, continuous, 2500 year old Achaemenid culture linking Xerxes to Zarif. Instead, the Iran-U.S. conflict has endured because of a willingness to reciprocate among participants. As an alternative to unnecessarily reductive or absolutist notions of culture, religion, or ideology, we should always first consider the contexts of current geopolitical rivalries, narratives about recent history, and the constraints on local politicians.
Repeating ahistorical mantras of us (good) vs. them (bad) and wishing upon stars still won't change these facts. Culture may matter, and civilizations may appear to clash, but the world is far more complicated than the simple mental maps that paint one people red and another blue. Iran is both to the East and to the West of the United States.
Siamak Tundra Naficy is a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School's department of Defense Analysis. An anthropologist (PhD at UCLA, 2010) with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach to social, biological, psychological, and cultural issues, his interests range from the anthropological approach to conflict theory to sacred values, cognitive science, and animal behavior. The views expressed are the author's and do not reflect those of the Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy, or the Naval Postgraduate School.
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Ali Mostofi
Please study the very foundation of human civilization, based on the invention of writing, free will, and human rights. They are in the DNA of every Iranian.
dominusvobiscumweb
Our resident boomer neocon MEK shill claims that the foundations of civilization are in the Iranian DNA, but doesn't understand geopolitics enough to realize that these concepts can't flourish when put under an unjust siege. Very sad.
Eb Hadi
If the US Administration and policymakers could understand the writer they could find a way out of the mess!
KHOSROW
Dialogue? Culture? Or, Rational Discourse?!
Unfortunately, the racist Western politicians understand you and respect you only when they fear you!
You cannot speak of culture and dialogue with men and women who see you as less human and less intelligent.
These former colonizers only understand the language they have shared for centuries: a brutal force that might eliminate their existence.
To expect pf them humanity and rational debates is like expecting of Frankenstein's monster to appreciate a joke or present an academic paper on postcolonial anthropology or the black hole!
Americans and Europeans are imbued with a sense of Hubris.
The only way you can deal with them as equals of sorts is to be equipped with long range thermonuclear weapons.
The events of last Saturday in Saudi Arabia established that Iranians are in posession of precision guided missiles and airplaned that can destroy Western interests in Southern Persian Gulf.
That is concentrating the minds of Western leaders: they did not expect Iran to have so developed that capability as to be able to have been able to teach others such as Yemenis.
Shia Crescent can now destroy Israel, Saudi Arabia, and UAE.
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Elektryczne Rowery
Seasons in Duszniki
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Gastronomy base
The history of the city reaches back to the year 1324; from that year comes the first note. In 1346 Duszniki received a town charter, territorially belonging to the Germany at the time. Over centuries the town has been developing thanks to the trade, papermaking and weaving industry, and for some time thanks to metallurgy. In 1605 the paper mill was built, which till today is a monument on a European scale. World War II did not bring destruction to the city.
Duszniki's Market square has a long history. There is a medieval arrangement, baroque and Renaissance monuments. Its direct surrounding is filled with very precious, architectural monuments, including a tenement by Słowackiego 2 street, which is the oldest building in the city (1598) and the former inn "Pod czarnym niedźwiedziem". The Market square is also rich in many sculptures, low reliefs and plaques, which commemorate former events.
City architecture
Reaching back to the year 1324, the history of Duszniki-Zdrój is still visible in many corners of the town. The historic tenements render the unique climate, which was present here before the outbreak of World War II and earlier. Of course, the architectural gem is the Paper Mill. However, it is not the only commemoration of the past. The Market square, its surrounding buildings, a row of houses come from the times of many past ages.
Park Zdrojowy
Park Zdrojowy- the most beautiful part of Duszniki-Zdrój, which climate and diversity of colours enchants at every time of the season. The history of the park is directly connected with the development of the city as the health resort. However, its present shape is due to the actions of the contemporary authorities from the 70's and 80's of the 19th century. It is the most frequently visited place, not only by patients and inhabitants, but also by a large number of tourists and even sport groups.
The first mentions about the healing properties of the local water come from the 15th century. The historic pump room was built in the first part of the 19th century. In its offer one may find healing waters, among others Chopin's Pieniawa or Jan Kazimierz. For years it was often visited. Pump room is one of the places contributing to the resort character of Duszniki-Zdrój. Inside it there are also shops with souvenirs and small concert hall.
Colourful fountain
It is yet another of Duszniki-Zdrój's special attractions. For the first time it shot in 1905 and since that time it has become the permanent element of Dusznicki's park. Today guests from the entire Poland visit the fountain to witness its show. Special performances are held in all days free of work since May to September, and every day during the International Chopin Festival.
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Michael Bielz korabeli magyaros nevén Bielz Mihály (Berethalom, 1787. május 10. – Nagyszeben, 1866. október 27.) erdélyi szász természettudós, az első erdélyi kőnyomó-intézet alapítója.

Élete
Iskoláit a medgyesi és nagyszebeni ágostai evangélikus gimnáziumban és a kolozsvári  református gimnáziumban végezte, majd a papi pályának szentelte magát és 1811-ben a berethalmi ágostai evangélikus község tanítója lett, ahol egyúttal az erdélyi szuperintendens titkára volt. 1814. október 2-án az újfalusi (Felső-Fehér vármegye) község lelkészévé választotta. Mivel azonban kedvelte rajzolást és festést, és ösztönözte a Senefelder által föltalált kőnyomás, Nagyszebenbe költözött és ott 1822-ben megalapította az első kőnyomóintézetet. Élete hátralevő életében ennek és a természettudományoknak élt. Ő alapította, többek társaságában, 1848-ban az erdélyi természettudósok társaságát, melynek vezetője és elnöke lett. 1845-ben a jászvásári orvostársaság, 1852-ben a frauendorfi kertészeti társulat, 1861-ben a drezdai Isis természettudományi társaság választották tagjukká.
Fia Eduard Albert Bielz szintén neves természettudós volt.

Művei
 Anleitung zum Gebrauche beweglicher Buchstaben. Hermannstadt, 1824.
 Elementarformenlehre, Beiträge zur Begründung des Unterrichts im Schreiben und Lesen. Uo. 1840.

Értekezései és cikkei
Gegen «Boués Gemälde von Deutschland und den angrenzenden Ländern mit Einschluss Siebenbürgens.» (Jahrbuch für Mineralogie etc. von C. Leonhard und Bronn. Stuttgart, 1832.), Beiträge zur geologisch-geognostischen Kenntniss von Siebenbürgen (Transsilvania I. 1833.), Zur Industrie (Uo. II. 1833.), Beitrag zur Gebirgskunde Siebenbürgens. (Uo.), Über des Vorkommen des Karpathen-Sandsteines in Siebenbürgen (Jahrbuch für Mineralogie und Petrefaktenkunde von K. L. Leonhard u. H. G. Bronn. Stuttgart, 1834.), Versuch einer Naturbeschreibung von Siebenbürgen (Transsilvania 1840. 4. sz.), Über die in Siebenbürgen vorkommenden Land- und Süss-Wasser-Mollusken (Uo. 1847.), Verzeichniss der Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken Siebenbürgens (Verh. u. Mitth. d. Sieb. V. für Naturw. II. 1851).

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Christopher Polhem (født 18. december 1661, død 30. august 1751) var en svensk mekaniker.

Liv og gerning
Polhem måtte i sin ungdom tjene opholdet som skriver, oppebørselsmand og lignende på svenske godser, men anvendte samtidig al sin fritid til studier, især over mekaniske emner og fik sig indrettet et mekanisk værksted. Latin lærte han hos en præst imod at lave ham et kunstigt stueur.

24 år gammel kom han til universitetet i Uppsala, hvor han snart blev kendt for sit mekaniske snille. Efter, at han havde fået indrettet en snild mekanisme til at føre malm op af Falun-gruberne, blev han af kongen gjort til bjergmekaniker. I årene 1694-97 rejste han i Tyskland, Holland, Frankrig og England, hvorfra han kom hjem med store kundskaber i mekanik. Blandt hans mangfoldige mekaniske arbejder må nævnes overførelsen på længere afstand af vandkraft til brug i bjergværker, en opfindelse, der indførtes flere steder.

I 1712 hjalp han til med de store dokanlæg i Karlskrona, og i slutningen af Karl XII's regering fik han overdraget udførelsen af en kanalforbindelse mellem Kattegat og Østersøen. Værket blev begyndt, men da det efter Karl's død og fredsslutningen, der åbnede de gamle søveje igen, var mindre nødvendigt, blev det ikke fortsat dengang.

Foruden arbejdet med disse og andre vandbygningsarbejder var han virksom på mange andre måder. Han fremmede landets metalindustri, opfandt maskiner til fremstilling af hjul til urværker, lavede hammerværker og udnyttede hertil landets overflod af vandkraft. Georg I af Storbritannien fik ham til at indrette en møntmaskine i Kassel og foretage forbedringer ved bjergværksdriften i Harzen, men hverken han eller zar Peter den Store i Rusland formåede at vinde ham for deres riger.

Til trods for sit store praktiske arbejde fik han tid til adskillig skribentvirksomhed. Han lod trykke tabeller, der indeholdt resultaterne af hans undersøgelser over vandbevægelsen i kanaler under forskellige forhold samt vandets arbejdsevner, og han udbredte megen nyttig kundskab herom gennem sine værksteder og ved mundtlig undervisning. Polhem regnes for grundlæggeren af svensk mekanik.

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 "Polhem, Christopher" (i: Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon, 2. udgave; København 1925; s. 353)

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Svenskere i 1600-tallet
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